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Here are four ways Commercial Green Cleaning pumps up your ROI ...

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1. Drives costs down across the board.
   

The Greening America’s Schools project: A Costs and Benefits study
sought to answer this question. The
focus was on schools; however, many of the findings are absolutely
applicable to every type of facility, building or business.
What they discovered in the study was a bit surprising, even for the
researchers. The study found that there were a number of financial
benefits and cost savings to going Green, and in some cases, they
were so significant that the savings were enough to pay for the hiring
of one additional full-time teacher. Among their conclusions (all
figures are in U.S. dollars):
• Energy costs were reduced by approximately $9 per square
foot in the Green schools.
• Water and wastewater costs were lowered by $1 per square
foot.
• Cost savings as a result of reduction of asthma and other
respiratory illnesses amounted to $3 per square foot. (Much of this is credited to green cleaning practices implemented!)
• Teacher retention (not needing to go through the process of
hiring new teachers) equaled $4 per square foot.
One of the most startling —and controversial— financial benefits the
study reported was that the improvement in lifetime student earnings
was equal to $49 per square foot. This is because with reduced
illness and absenteeism in schools as the result of building and
operating a Green facility, student attendance improved, and
performance and test scores went up as well. 

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    2. In every type of building we are seeing a direct correlation between Greencleaning and improved worker productivity.
                                                                                                                                                   You are seeing more and more facilities
in the United States and all over North America adopt Green
cleaning. Just as it appears that in schools there is a definite
correlation between the use of environmentally preferable cleaning
products and a reduction in asthma and respiratory illness and
improvement in school attendance and student performance,
the Building Owners and Managers Association
International (BOMA) estimates that the cost of salaries and benefits
per square foot in a U.S. Class A office building is about $150.
Researchers have determined that improved indoor air quality, as a
result of Green cleaning, reduces the frequency of workers blowing
their nose, rubbing an eye, dealing with an allergen-induced
headache, calling or seeing a doctor, and discussing their illness with coworkers.
“This translates into 3 minutes to more than 30 minutes of improved
worker productivity per day per worker. Just a 3-
minute-per-day increase in worker productivity results in a 75-centsper-
square-foot savings. Multiply this by your number of employees - the improvement and savings become significant.”